Status Updates From The Midwife

Interesting so far but…I’m wary of where I suspect the author might take this story

"I want this baby probably more than you do, Gar. I want to give you a child.”
“This is important to women, isn’t it? This bearing a child.”

Uh, gross?

'“Beautiful? I have hair of all different colors and my chin is stubborn, and my bosom is too big for the rest of me.” Her eyes widened as she uttered the last of her denial'

Oh my god, this Mary-Sue would be just as great at job interviews ("Oh, I suppose I tend to work TOO hard") as she is at everything else.

'It was to that establishment Eric Magnor rode his black horse, a stallion if Leah knew anything about it. Her eyes flitted to the animal’s obvious male structure and away, a feeling of awe overcoming her reluctance to view such a physical trait.'

I... what?????

Oh, geez. Is the feet washing supposed to be some sort of humbling Jesus reference?

I don't know how much more of this I can take. I don't know why I bought this!! I should've run screaming at the first mention of children.

'"When Hulda refused it, I moved our things to another, one with a single window. And a large closet,” he added, with dark humor.'

That's funny, 'cause most people didn't really have closets in bedrooms, back then. They typically used armoires or chests.

Yes, I'm being nitpicky.

'Her eyes were the true blue of her ancestors[...]'

What the shit does THAT mean?

"Her virgin flesh would know no ease from its aching need."



Umm...